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Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh

Leitch, William Leighton, 1854, Lithograph
Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh
Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh
Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh
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8029
Title
Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh
Description
A busy street scene showing men and women gathered at the pavement buying and exchanging goods. A laden cart is parked at the side of the road and a man tends to his horses. There is an assortment of tenement housing on either side of the street and in the distance the outline of St Giles' Cathedral.
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Engraver
Harding J. D.
Date
1854
Size
30 x 41.1 cm
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Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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